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...bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This...
...nearly so great as its admirers insist. The only work horses showing at the National last week were the eight mountainous Clydesdales of Anheuser-Busch's famed advertising team. Most numerous and most popular of modern show classes are the jumpers. Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend too much time popping neatly up and down over fences to have either the speed...
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